Dear Packers fans, right now the front office look more and more like idiots for not trading him. It's one game luckily they play the Lions, Vikings and bears twice. Not sure which division is worst the NFC East or North. Andy Dalton throwing the INT int he end zone was hilarious.
My Browns didn't show up for the second half, 16 years of season open losses. WTG. I hate the Ravens, but they are going to win tonight making the Browns bottom B this week.
The Bills need to learn how to develop a running game without depending on Allen to run it and fumble. Watt wrecked the game in the second half well worth the money..
Take away D. Henry out of the picture of the Titans and you have a losing record.
Keith Tanner said:
60 minutes of game clock time plus 20 minutes for halftime - yeah, maybe if they didn't stop the clock they could get from start to finish in 90 minutes. But that's not how football works at any level.
The 20 minute halftime is certainly part of the problem with the game length.
But you know what? I'd even give them two hours. TWO HOURS to play a game with a 60 minute clock. That'd be about 60 fewer minutes than it's taking now.
I realize that's never going to happen, but it would be nice if they could manage it.
Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:
Keith Tanner said:
60 minutes of game clock time plus 20 minutes for halftime - yeah, maybe if they didn't stop the clock they could get from start to finish in 90 minutes. But that's not how football works at any level.
The 20 minute halftime is certainly part of the problem with the game length.
But you know what? I'd even give them two hours. TWO HOURS to play a game with a 60 minute clock. That'd be about 60 fewer minutes than it's taking now.
I realize that's never going to happen, but it would be nice if they could manage it.
I would also take a VERY close look at ad breaks. I'm not so sure about the NFL, but we've been to some very large college FB games, where they put the TV timeout time on the scoreboard. They are up to 5 min, sometimes. Crazy. This happens for many of the change of possesion times- and it's worst after a touchdown- where there's a commercial break after the TD and sometimes after the kickoff.
While it's helped keeping the clock running when a player goes out of bounds, the commercial breaks are nuts.
some highlights.
"why are you 37 with a man bun?"
"It was one game, everyone needs to relax r-e-t-I-r-e, relax"
mtn
MegaDork
9/15/21 10:39 a.m.
Yeah, I can't take the length of NFL games anymore. When there is a 60 minute game, with less than 20 minutes of actual gameplay (probably closer to 15, or even 10 minutes than 20), and it takes 3 hours to get it over with? I'll pass.
My FIL has season tickets to the Bears. I "have to go" to at least one a year. I really dislike it, honestly. PITA to get there, horrible stadium, too long, etc.
College is the same way, except for D3. I guess I'm just not a football fan.
slefain
PowerDork
9/15/21 11:45 a.m.
I live in Atlanta. We're getting back to the good old days of being able to park your car with 2 Falcons tickets tucked under the windshield wiper and coming back out to find 4. I'm also a Georgia Tech fan, so I'm used to a certain level of disappointment in football.
There is one simple solution to the commercial issue during NFL games: Redzone Channel. 
The USC Head Coach rumor mill has Coach Meyer as a candidate I feel bad for Trevor if that is true or maybe thats a good thing since they didn't run the ball last week against the weekest run defense.
You really notice how long the commercial breaks are when you stream the games via ESPN. THey just put up a "COMMERCIAL BREAK" placard sometimes, and it stays up there foreeeeever.
Between the commercial breaks and the inevitable flags and reviews, the game does drag. It's hard to get excited about a big play or a scoring run when you have to wait 3 minutes for the review. I get that these guys are skilled enough that the only way to make something happen is to be right on the edge of failure, but OMG it's frustrating.
Just to prove my Detoit Lions are worse than your team, today they lost on an NFL record 66 yard field goal, which hit the cross bar square, yet somehow bounced up, over and in. This followed Jacksonville getting away with a clear delay of game that wasn't called on the play before.
Just when I think they've found every possible new and creative way to lose . . .
In reply to kazoospec :
Hmmm we played Arizona today and lost.
The lions are hot garbage.
/end thread
The Seahawks have major issues
kazoospec said:
Just to prove my Detoit Lions are worse than your team, today they lost on an NFL record 66 yard field goal, which hit the cross bar square, yet somehow bounced up, over and in. This followed Jacksonville getting away with a clear delay of game that wasn't called on the play before.
Just when I think they've found every possible new and creative way to lose . . .
You forgot the part where the had the Ravens at 4th and 19, and changed the defense to let Baltimore get enough yards to attempt that record FG after the blatant missed call.
kazoospec said:
Just to prove my Detoit Lions are worse than your team, today they lost on an NFL record 66 yard field goal, which hit the cross bar square, yet somehow bounced up, over and in. This followed Jacksonville getting away with a clear delay of game that wasn't called on the play before.
Just when I think they've found every possible new and creative way to lose . . .
Can they dig deep, and find a way to be the first team to 0-17?
If you're looking for a team to find new, creative ways to lose games, the Lions are your team.
logdog (Forum Supporter) said:
kazoospec said:
Just to prove my Detoit Lions are worse than your team, today they lost on an NFL record 66 yard field goal, which hit the cross bar square, yet somehow bounced up, over and in. This followed Jacksonville getting away with a clear delay of game that wasn't called on the play before.
Just when I think they've found every possible new and creative way to lose . . .
Can they dig deep, and find a way to be the first team to 0-17?
Rumor is, this guy has already crossed out the "16" and may be at the next game sporting a "17".
In reply to kazoospec :
The only saving grace so far is that there are 3(?) other teams still looking for that first win too....
trigun7469 said:
Dear Packers fans, right now the front office look more and more like idiots for not trading him.
Care to reconsider given the game in SF...? 
If the Lions go 0-17 my tires for next season are paid for by my winnings.
I doubt it'll happen, though, it took an NFL-record last-second field goal to keep that bet alive last Sunday.
Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:
If you're looking for a team to find new, creative ways to lose games, the Lions are your team.
at least they are new and creative. Nagy and the Bears lose by running the same failed play on offense over and over again.
Nagy's really exposed now that he doesn't have Trubisky as his whipping boy... :)
mtn said:
Yeah, I can't take the length of NFL games anymore. When there is a 60 minute game, with less than 20 minutes of actual gameplay (probably closer to 15, or even 10 minutes than 20), and it takes 3 hours to get it over with? I'll pass.
This might be why the highlight videos on the NFL YouTube channel often get well over a million views. The entire game condensed down into a 10-15 min video. Granted, I watch them because I don't have TV of any sort, although I will catch the Thursday night games on Prime once in awhile (first one next week on 10/7).
After the game last night against the Cowboys, I'm predicting a 8-9 season for the Eagles... ...maybe.
Pushrod said:
Nagy's really exposed now that he doesn't have Trubisky as his whipping boy... :)
Literally no one noticed that Trubisky had better 2020 stats than Dalton and Foles? But yeah, Nagy is not looking good right now.
